Susan Hangen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA. She is the author of Creating a New Nepal: The Ethnic Dimension (2007), The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins (2010) and co-editor of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal (2012) (with Mahendra Lawoti). Her current research project examines transnational politics in the Nepali diaspora. She is also Chair of the Board of Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice in New York City.
